My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner.

[Ballaghaue, Andreas Isle of Man, 1986. Typed, photocopied and bound by John Gardiner].

Exactly the same as the copy in the Sackler Library (318 Gar), except for the missing preface and end page.

Includes Henry John Gardiner, … A very few reminiscences by his younger son, and The Tutankhamun Tomb by Margaret Gardiner.

Second copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962).

It includes an undated letter from Robert Hamilton to Mrs de Garis Davies, indicating he is returning the work after reading it and thanking her for lending it to him.

Copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962).

Fourth copy of My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1968).

Incomplete second copy of My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1968) [preface and pp. 1-27].

Typescript, annotated by Gardiner himself.

Research material on tomb and rock inscriptions including at Aswan and Sehel

Includes:
-Cartouches of Neferhotep I and Sesostris III from rock texts at Sehel Island (TopBib v.250), text of Haankhef from rock text at Konosso (TopBib v.254), and text of Neferhotep I and family from rock text at Aswan (TopBib v.246)
-Copy of text from the 'famine stela' (Brooklyn Museum, 9.4.004) (TopBib v.252(81))
-Copy of names and titles from tombs at Aswan including Mekhu and Sabni (TopBib v.231(1-2)), Heqaib (TopBib v.232), Sirenput II (TopBib v.233), Aku (TopBib v.234), Khui (TopBib v.235), Khunes (TopBib v.235), Khenuseu (TopBib v.235), Herkhuf (TopBib v.237), Pepynakht (TopBib v.237), Senmosi (TopBib v.237), Sirenput I (TopBib v.238), Sebkhotp (TopBib v.239), Khuenkhnum (TopBib v.240), Thethi (TopBib v.240), Sen (TopBib v.240), Iba (TopBib v.240) and extract from a letter from Professor Elmar Edel to whom these notes had been sent for consultation in connection with his work (in German)
-Copy of inscriptions including from Aswan, Bijeh, and Sehel copied from Morgan, J. de, Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'égypte antique. Première série, Haute égypte, (1894) (OEB 136449)

Table of contents on page 1.
Transcriptions of hieratic papyri:
-Budapest, Szépmvészeti Múzeum, 51.1961 (Magical)
-Paris, Musée du Louvre, N. 3171
-Paris, Musée Guimet, 16959
-St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, 1117
-St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, 1118
-Turin Museo Egizio, Cat. 1983 verso
-Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, 19a (Magical)
-Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (von Bergmann, Hier. ... Texte pl. 5 recto)
-Golenischeff / Golenishchev collection, Literary Letter
Transcriptions of writing tablets:
-London, British Museum, EA 16672 (tablet of Eskhons)
-Paris, Musée du Louvre, E. 6858 (tablet of Eskhons)

Transcriptions.
Hieratic papyri:
-Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 3047
-Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 8869
-Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 9010
-Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 10496
-Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 10500
-Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58071 (Boulak 12)
-Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58072
-Leiden, Rijksmuseum, I.352
-London British Museum, EA 10248 (Anastasi VIII)
-London British Museum, EA 10683 verso (Chester Beatty III)
-Moscow, State Pushkin Museum, 120 (Wenamun, Golenischeff / Golenishchev)
-Paris, Musée du Louvre, E.11006, 1 (Mallet)
-Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 30 (Ambras)
-Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 34
-Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (von Bergmann, <i>Hier. ... Texte</i> pl. 5 <i>verso</i>)
Hieratic ostraca:
-Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst, 1547
-Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 3722a (Conte du revenant = von Bergmann pl. iv [left])
-Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 5988
-Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 6155
-Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, ‘Conte du revenant’
Stelae (not hieratic)
-Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

1 letter from Korostovtsev, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Korostovtsev.
Book exchange, publications by Golenischeff / Golenishchev for publications by Gardiner. Černý referred to a plan to visit the USSR, which eventually did not happen.

Photographs of material from Leningrad including the Golenischeff / Golenishchev collection.

Transcriptions. Papyri.

• Golenischeff / Golenishchev Glossary
• Sallier I
• Salt 825

Research notes on the Hatshepsut inscription at Speos Artemidos (TopBib iv.163(1-2)) including copy, transcription and translation of part of the text.

Also includes Golenischeff / Golenishchev copy of inscriptions from tomb of Istabl 'Antar at Speos Artemidos (TopBib iv.164(17)) copied from Rougé, J., Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques copiées en égypte pendant la mission scientifique de M. le Vicomte Emmanuel de Rougé, (1877) (OEB 148962).

• 'Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive' exhibition at the Weston Library, Oxford, 13 April 2022 – 5 February 2023.
• Featuring material from the Tutankhamun Archive and other collections in the Griffith Institute.
• Posters, flyers, display materials, merchandising products, ephemera, and other memorabilia.
  1. Textile poster.
  2. Five text panels ('Introduction', 'Timeline', 'Griffith Institute', 'Curators’ Audio Highlights', 'Howard Carter portrait'), both textile and board.
  3. Caption texts for all sixteen showcases.
  4. Three textile banners.
  5. Image facsimiles, both original size and enlargements.
  6. QR codes for the audio guide.
  7. Reduced copy of Carter’s portrait.
  8. Replica of wreath placed on the forehead of the king’s outer coffin, made by The Garden of Oxford (Covered Market) and used in a ceremony held on 4 November 2022, where it was laid down by Ahdaf Soueif.
  9. Materials used in a 'Touch Tour' for the Blind and Partially Sighted / Visually Impaired on 13 October 2022.
  10. Free standing showcase cover design.
  11. Folder/package of posters, flyers, and other memorabilia and ephemera.
  12. Selection of merchandising products: bag, fridge magnets, postcards, book mark, and notebook.

54. Griffith, Cat. of Dem. Graffiti of the Dodecaschoenus, pl. XXXVIII [Ph.235].
55. id. ib. pl. LXXI [Ph.450].

• 35mm black and white transparencies, made from the drawings on the original set of object cards (TAA i.1.1-620).
• Photographs made from these transparencies were affixed to the duplicate set of object cards to complete the information, see TAA iii.1.1-620.

Correspondence from Lady Alicia Margaret Amherst (5th daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney; married 1898, Sir Evelyn Gascoyne-Cecil) mostly relating to research for her book on the history of gardening. Correspondence 1907 relating to the need to raise money, the sale of books and asking Newberry to seek an interview with Carnegie on the families behalf.

Correspondence from Lady Margaret Susan Amherst (d. 1919) (wife of Lord Amherst of Hackney) relating to: Newberry's work at Tel el Armana and Beni Hassan; the purchase of items including requests that Newberry purchase certain items on their behalf; Howard Carter's appointment; fraud and sale of house and belongings (1906); Newberry's divorce trial.

Note:
MSS 2/47a is also numbered 2/61
MSS 2/47b is also numbered 2/62 and 255

Photographs and photostats of material from Michigan University Library, and accompanying postcard from W. H. Worrell, dated 6 January 1933.

Descriptions and texts from tombs at Thebes:

• Royal Tomb KV 17, Sethos I
• TT 63, Sebkhotp (including hieratic graffiti)
• TT 68, [Per?]enkhmun
• TT 139, Pairi (hieratic graffito)
• TT 341, Nekhtamun
• TT 359, Inherkhau
• TT 367, Paser (including Coptic graffiti)

• Set of 5 brass printing plates.
• Used for the production of Fox, Penelope 1951. Tutankhamun’s Treasure London: Oxford University Press [OEB 2854]
  • plate 28
  • plate 30
  • plate 48 B [left]
  • plate 48 C [upper & lower]
  • plate 49 A [left]

• Photographs showing the transport of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Laboratory tomb (KV 15), Valley of the Kings.
• Taken by anonymous photographers.
• None of the photographs in this group were taken by Harry Burton.

The album contains 23 original studies, including the photographic portrait of a sculptural bust of Lane, two fully worked drawings with watercolour, eleven monochrome watercolours with pen and ink landscapes and views, and ten pencil studies of wall reliefs. Many of these images include handwritten captions in pencil that are almost certainly added by E. W. Lane himself on the opposing page of the mounted image. This indicates that Lane arranged for this selection of items to be mounted in the album, which was then presented to someone.

• Copy of Davies, Nina M. and Gardiner, Alan H. 1962. Tutankhamun’s painted box: reproduced in colour from the original in the Cairo Museum. Artwork by Nina M. Davies, with explanatory text by Alan H. Gardiner, published by Oxford University Press for Griffith Institute, Oxford [OEB 8995].
• A group of duplicate plates (see below).

Tutankhamun documentation: Nina de Garis Davies' notes on boxes (21) and (540)+(551).

• Nina de Garis Davies's manuscript notes on the decoration of two boxes:
  • Carter object (21), the "Painted Box" with battle and hunting scenes.
  • Carter objects (540)+(551), with scenes of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun in a garden on the lid.
• Includes two small watercolour sketches and a line drawing, all created by Davies.
• This material was created in January and February 1951 when Davies visited the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
• Davies's paintings of box (21) were subsequently published. See below for details.

Folder containing 3 black and white group photographs which include Percy Newberry, and all appear to have been taken in Egypt.

Photographs include the following information:

• A note on the back suggests it was taken in the 1920s and names Abu Bakr, Hermann Grapow, Percy Newberry, Georg Steindorff, Hermann Junker and Selim Hassan.
• The back of the photograph is date stamped 17 January 1930, and a note reads 'A Benni Hassane' [at Beni Hasan].
• Note on the back of the photograph suggests that it was taken at Cairo University in the 1920s and lists the people seated left to right as: 1. [?], 2. [?], 3. Selim Hassan 4. Newberry 5. [?] 6. Junker 7. Vikentiev 8. Henri? Frankfort 9. [?] and in the front row 1. Baudouin? Van de Walle, 2. [?], 3. [?].

Folder titled 'DYN. IV, V, VI' containing notes relating to the 4th Dynasty, 5th Dynasty and 6th Dynasty.

Includes:

• Notes on King lists for the 4th, 5th and 6th Dynasties
• Notes relating to Menkaure, Khafre, Khufu and Snefru
• Notes on cylinder seals from the 5th Dynasty
• Notes on Neith and the pyramid of Neith published by Gustave Jéquier in Jéquier, G. 1933. Les pyramides des reines Neit et Apouit. Fouilles à Saqqarah. Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (OEB 141991)
• Notes on Aba and the pyramid of Aba published by Gustave Jéquier in Jéquier, G. 1935. La pyramide d'Aba. Fouilles at Saqqarah.. Le Caire: Impr. De l'IFAO (OEB 141989)